America needs to invest in housing infrastructure that provides all of us safety and stability Like the air we breathe and the food we eat, housing is a basic human need. But even before the pandemic hit, our housing system was already broken. We’ve seen ...
24 Mar 2021 - Brook Fadley
On Jan. 20, just two weeks after a Capitol siege rooted in white supremacy, a young poet helped lead us forward Like all of you, I am a knot of entangled emotions. On the one hand, I am strengthened by the orderly transition of power that we witnessed in ...
27 Jan 2021 - Rukaiyah Adams
Episode 15: The Oregon Democrat, who will become the chair of the Senate Finance Committee, also talks about impeachment, social media regulation, an alternative to policing and more After an unprecedented attack on the U.S. Capitol building last week, Se ...
12 Jan 2021 - DeVon Pouncey
The program, similar to a universal basic income, is targeted to low-income residents As a coalition of city leaders around the U.S. gathers to support a guaranteed income, various communities are evaluating how it might work in their hometowns. A guarant ...
30 Nov 2020 - Annemarie Cuccia
The relief that we feel at this moment must be tempered by the realization that the hard work starts now As I write this, the presidential election has just been called. I believe the president-elect is striking the right tone in reminding us that 70 mill ...
18 Nov 2020 - Brian Greer
The congresswoman has held fast to her progressive voice while facing down xenophobic, racist and sexist vitriol from the right Over the course of her first term in Congress, Rep. Ilhan Omar has proved herself a fierce advocate for the nation’s vast worki ...
28 Oct 2020 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
The White House’s attitudes toward homelessness could grow the population it wishes to sweep away As of this writing, the future of the Trump administration is unknown. What comes next may be the end of a contentious legacy of a single-term president or a ...
21 Oct 2020 - Joanne Zuhl
RBG was a champion for reproductive freedom, equal pay and pregnancy accommodations, and her work carries on through these advocates T he late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has long been acclaimed for carrying the weight of progressive issues in the Supreme ...
7 Oct 2020 - Hanna Merzbach
Episode 10: Oregon’s U.S. senator discusses his efforts to keep federal forces out of protests, COVID-19 assistance, the detention of children at the border, and more On the 10th episode of the Street Roots Podcast, host DeVon Pouncey is joined by U.S. Je ...
7 Aug 2020 - DeVon Pouncey
‘Mr. Jones’ screenwriter Andrea Chalupa has family ties to Ukraine stretching from the 1930s famine to the Trump impeachment — with ‘Animal Farm’ and Soviet propaganda sprinkled in Ukraine being used as a pawn between super states will come as no surprise ...
7 Feb 2020 - Steven MacKenzie